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MARY MERIAM PO Box 275 Eagle Rock, MO 65641 417-271-4827 mary [dot] meriam [at] gmail [dot] com |
| PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE She’s ready for the warm embrace, the safe sweet nook of academe, a teaching job, a power suit, no more a homeless waif, assigned an office with a door, a knob, a desk, and lots of time to write and think in atmospheres of open minds, in peace. She’s had enough “experience” to sink a ship. Her work is published without cease, and she has no connections, nor the cash to buy her way inside. Consider how she loves to learn. Consider how she’ll dash to help her students’ wobbly work, her tao of bringing glory to the writing schools, her skill in hatching geniuses from fools. |
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My First Book
At first I felt afraid to take up space. Why should a tree be sacrificed for what I had to say? I also couldn’t face my disabilities, the kind that cut into my sense of being whole, and good enough to print. I felt defeated first, unfit to fight, convinced that no one should be forced to hear my voice, for I was cursed. But through the years, I slowly built my strength. I catalogued the lies and truths I found. In time, I learned to speak my piece at length and grew into a fondness for the sound. And then, I reached a pinnacle - my book - born of the dark past. Light! Take a look! |
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| THE COUNTESS OF FLATBROKE REVIEWED The Barefoot Muse Galatea Resurrects Nicki Hastie Lillian Faderman COMPLETE PUBLICATIONS 2009 Light - “Red Kiss,” “Splitsville,” “Prayer for Leaf” Chiron Review - “When I Meet Her By the Seashore” Sinister Wisdom #76 - “Prayer for Leaf,” “For Sally’s Sake” Sixty-Six: A Journal of Sonnet Studies - “Sea de Sade,” “Cuckoo Father,” “Perhaps a Little Context Would Help” Soundzine - “Hot Spell,” “The Woman of My Dreams” Listen! OCHO - “Sea de Sade,” “Orphic Chant” Rattle - “Riding on Dragons,”“Cherry Ripe,”“Caught by the Giant Dog,” “Swindled,” “King Booze” Rondeau Roundup - “Red Kiss,” “Daylight Losing Time” Lilt - “Red Kiss” The Journal of Lesbian Studies - “Queer Elements,” “Gaze,” “A Cappella,” “Something Good” Alimentum Journal: The Literature of Food - “Farmer’s Market” Cliterature - “Hot Spell,” “Charlotte Mew” Windy City Times Pride Literary Supplement - “Let’s Marae!” The Spectator - “The Great God Pollen” 2008 Light - “Stationmaster” Soundzine - “Comfort Songs” Listen! Street Spirit - January - “Exchange Rate”, “Iris” Street Spirit - February - “Queer Elements” Street Spirit - March - “Witness This” Snakeskin - “Haircut by Angelo (Capelli D'Angelo)” , “Daylight Losing Time” , “Charlotte Mew” , “Nutcracker McCracken” , “Night School” A Prairie Home Companion’s Bed of Roses Love Sonnet Contest - “Something Good” Windy City Times Pride Literary Supplement - “Lesbian Studies” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide - “Gaze” Chiron Review - “Queries” Snakeskin - “Elaine” Street Spirit - November - “Shattered Vase”; five close readings of poems; and three poems: “Comfort Song,” “For Sally’s Sake,” “Stationmaster” Street Spirit - December - “Cherry Ripe” The Lyric - “Cuckoo Father,” “Farewell to my delight” 2007 Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly - “Queer Elements” Street Spirit - January - nine poems Professor Allison Joseph is using “Ten Steps to Writing Iambic Pentameter” in her class. Umbrella - “Cheers: Reading a Poem by Alan Shapiro” , “Ars Longa: Reading a Poem by Marcia Karp” Street Spirit - February - five poems The Shit Creek Review - “Handheld Objects” The Shit Creek Review - Groping in the Dark: Reading a Poem by Judith Rechter” , “The Countess of Flatbroke” , “The Bitter Side of Flatbroke” , “How To Be A Flatbroke Poet And Get A Chapbook” Umbrella - “Break-Life-Love-Line: A Letter to Emily” The Barefoot Muse - “A Study of 20th Century Bahanic Fragments” Light - “Trip Triolet”, “The Duchess of Dishes”, “Queen Conch” Street Spirit - June - eight poems and an essay Literary Imagination - “Who leaves me rootless” , “Witness This” Sinister Wisdom #73 - “Iris” , “Something Good” , “Girl Guide” , “may the women in prison dance” Street Spirit - July - three poems Lilt - “Witness This” 2006 Street Spirit - January - “The Countess of Flatbroke” , “Word Beat” , “Handheld Objects” Sinister Wisdom #67 - “The Countess of Flatbroke” , “The Bitter Side of Flatbroke” , “alone: a senryu sequence”, “Subtext” , “Sustenance” Street Spirit - March - “Homeless in the Park” Sinister Wisdom #68-69 - “Handheld Objects” Street Spirit - April - - seven poems Street Spirit - May - four poems Street Spirit - August - eight poems Wicked Alice - “Farewell, Farcia” The Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review - “Rhythm and Muse” and “Word Beat” Street Spirit - September - “Poetry Shelters” (book review) and four poems Street Spirit - October - three poems The Shit Creek Review - “Basic Me” 2005 Sinister Wisdom #64 - “Sonata” Sinister Wisdom #65 - “The Twisted Cage” Sinister Wisdom #66 - “Nabad iyo Chaano” Street Spirit - “The Bitter Side of Flatbroke” Bay Windows - “Something Good” Wicked Alice - “The Sweet Gardenias” 2004 Sinister Wisdom #62 - “Upon Reading Liann Snow” Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly - “Wu Tsao’s Seclusion” The New York Times - Letter to the Editor - “Incarcerated Activist” The sonnet, “The Countess of Pembroke,” was read to open the ceremonies of the Mary Sidney Society’s second annual Sidney Supper and Pageant in honor of Mary Sidney, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sinister Wisdom #63 - “True Nature” 2003 Poets Against the War - May 15th Poem of the Day - “Heart Break” 2002 Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly - “A Separate Place” Lodestar Quarterly - “Transplanted” Poetry Poetry - “Blues Addiction” 2001 Bay Windows - “The Duchess” The Write Dyke - “Captivation” 1999 So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art - “Sustenance” and “Arousal” EDUCATION 1982 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY; New York, NY Master of Fine Arts in Poetry - Studied with Jane Cooper, Carolyn Heilbrun, Joseph Brodsky, and Derek Walcott. 1980 MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE; Middlebury, VT Seven-week Program in French 1978 BENNINGTON COLLEGE; Bennington, VT Bachelor of Arts in Poetry - Studied with Alvin Feinman, Marguerite Stewart, Mara Maizitis, and Camille Paglia. - Focused on seventeenth-century English poetry. - Wrote collection of poems for senior thesis. - Interviewed about writing poetry on Vermont public television. - Received award for a poem from Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. - Poetry editor of Bennington’s literary magazine. - Selected to tutor freshmen. - Studied art, music, and dance. 
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